Camera Removal?
Anyone remove the camera itself from the board? I want to make the camera sperate from the board. I am trying to mount the lens part of the camcorder to my helmet and the recorder some where else. Anyone know where to get the connections? Or has anyone sodiered to the connections?

As far as i know, know one has done this yet...but, its in my list of things to do for the rocket project. The imager board removes easily from the main board, just a couple of screws, then it unplugs. The idea so far is to desolder the connector from the imager board, extend wires from the imager board to the removed connector and then plug it back into the main board. Pretty delicate procedure, but we'll see what happens.

I have also been contiplating this.. I was thinking of finding those connectors and making a cable.. Then moving the camera to a new "box" Does anyone know exactly what those connectors are?

ID on the connector(male plug) is PLA 22 Meaning it is a PLA type connector with 22 pins in a smt mount. I do not know who manufacture's this connector. I have also been contiplating this.. I was thinking of finding those connectors and making a cable.. Then moving the camera to a new "box" Does anyone know exactly what those connectors are?

Thanks for the info... I am going to start looking around for one of them so I can just make an extension cable.... :lol:

THANKS! MUOTUC. I couldn't find what that connector was called anywhere. *stumbles off in search of supplier*

Hey if you find any suppliers let me know hal0gen.

I am pretty interested in finding the exact same connector as well. The only one close enough that I could find (it *looks* very similar) was one made by Hirose electric (in a Digikey catalog). I will probably order one next week just to try. As far as making a cable and mounting the camera separately goes, the cable cannot really be made too long---the camera needs a 27 MHz clock supplied by the main board so you might start having some skew issues after about 3'.

Would not need to be that far... Just from helmet to a jacket pocket... :)

Anyone have more luck than me finding a connector?

hey, this would be excellent for my ir project ima do with my camcorder. i was thinking about this somewhere in the back of my mind, and i went to to it, and my friend yelled and said as soon as i remove it it would unfocus. i didnt think so.

On my B2 you'd have to desolder or break the microphone before the image would dismount - it's held on not only by the screws, but by two soldered pins of the microphone which is in the same plastic housing.

TT anyone have any luck yet?

You might have better luck desoldering these connectors and replacing them with something else with the same SMD footprint. These connectors are designed to be "board-to-board" connectors, so the only way to get an extension ribbon going is to make a pair of "bridge" pcbs -- one end of the board with the camera's connector, the other end with a standard ribbon connector. The connectors for the camera imager look a lot like Hirose connectors. (They're very common for LCD panels). check the Digikey site and search the catalog.